Two For One

Back in March I was lucky enough to visit Las Vegas with some scrapping friends.  I'm making slow but steady progress with the layouts about the trip and I've just used one of the first photos in a page prompted by the second challenge this month at the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog: to scrap a layout and then use the same design to make a card from the scraps. 

I often start with sketches and I thought that if a card was on the menu perhaps I'd start with a layout from a card sketch!  I grabbed one from Sketch Support (#18) and cut strips from the papers from my August counterfeit kit.

To echo the "Welcome" from the sign I backed the title letters with punched circles and mounted them on foam pads.

Our first excursion in Las Vegas was a hop-on-hop-off tour in an open-topped bus - always a great way to get a feel for a new destination.  The first stop after joining the circular tour was, appropriately, the Welcome sign and it was possible to get out to take photos and join the next tour bus afterwards.  However, we chose to stay put as our tour guide Renée was so funny {she thought we were funny (peculiar) as we were in Vegas for stash shopping in Michaels!}.   I was also scouting for geocaches in Vegas and luckily the virtual cache here just required a photo with GPS receiver in the frame - so that was my first foreign geocache sorted too!

Having cut up strips for my page it was a piece of cake to cut some of them smaller to make a card - substituting a sticker for the photo and some ric-rac instead of ribbon.  No dimensional buttons though as the UK post system charges extra if your mail is too thick!  Do you make cards from scraps?  It's a great way to use them up!